MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA - CEMETERIES Peter Kolb Family Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: uranut@bellsouth.net E. L. Daves Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *** *** *** *** *** PETER KOLB CEMETERY Meriwether County, Georgia GNIS Location: 33.0107E 84.7611N From the Greenville Courthouse, Stovall Road is a half- mile west on Highway 109. On this visit, the bridge was out on Stovall at Walnut Creek and we detoured down Fire Tower Road. The cemetery is located in the triangle of Stovall and Chrishman Road (dirt) less than a mile west of Fire Tower and Stovall Roads. Peter Kolb is buried on the top of the hill. The black graves were down the hill from his grave that are now distroyed by a bulldozer. White Section Kolb, Peter Died 8 Dec 1835 Aged 84 years s/o Martin & Mary Wilds Kolb h/o Theney Gates S.C. Mil. Revolutionary War Native of South Carolina Representative GA Legislature for Jackson County, GA Black Section (destroyed) Parks, Henry, 1875-1950 Parks, Mrs Nancy Jackson, 1 Nov 1886 - 16 Apr 1986 Johnson, Miss Edith Jack, 1890 - 19 Nov 1978 Gates Sr., Mr Lucious (Man), 6 Sep 1910 - 30 Jul 1985 Godfrey, Mrs Carrie Lue, 1913 - 15 Mar 1983 *** *** *** *** *** NOTES: A Special thanks to the members of the Meriwether Historical Society for their helpful information. According to the Meriwether County Cemetery Book by Priscilla Turner (1993), Peter Kolb Cemetery is located in the Seventh District on LL7. As of June 2003, this cemetery is not on the GNIS cemetery list or any County maps. Peter Kolb is the father of Peter Valentine Kolb II buried in Cobb County, Georgia. In 1803, he was a founding member of Crooked Creek Baptist Church in southern Jackson County near Athens, Georgia. In Meriwether, the name is pronounced "kulp" and in Cobb County it is pronounced "cobb".